Bhojpuri people singer Devi lately took half in an occasion in Bihar celebrating the start centenary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Her efficiency, nonetheless, took an surprising flip when she sang the bhajan “Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram.” Whereas singing the bhajan, Devi claimed that she requested to cease singing after some viewers members raised objections to the road “Ishwar Allah Tero Naam” within the track.
In an interview with ANI, Devi defined what occurred on the occasion. “I’m shocked. I used to be singing a bhajan, a favorite certainly one of Mahatma Gandhi. Huge leaders of the BJP together with (Bihar) dy CM Vijay Sinha and Ashwini Chaubey had been there. A couple of folks of ‘Hindu Putra Sangathan’ began the ruckus when the road ‘ishwar allah tero naam’ got here. The on-stage leaders could not determine find out how to handle the state of affairs and some of them got here to me and requested to apologise in order that the state of affairs could possibly be introduced underneath management,” she mentioned as quoted by ANI.
“I apologised as I did not need the state of affairs to deteriorate as I had additionally acquired ‘Atal Vishisht Samman’ from the deputy CM there. Now, I feel that strict motion should be taken towards these individuals who created chaos there… I’m receiving threats as properly. it is a disrespect to girls. Such a imply act on the start anniversary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee who saved all of the communities collectively, is shameful… The social gathering ought to take motion towards such folks. I thank all of the individuals who got here in help of me,” Devi added.
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi additionally reacted to the incident, sharing a video clip of it on social media and criticising the protestors.”They supply flowers to Bapu to point out off to the world however in actuality, they haven’t any respect for him. They take the identify of Babasaheb Ambedkar to point out off however in actuality, they insult him. The BJP hates our tolerant and inclusive tradition and custom a lot that they insult our nice males many times,” she wrote in Hindi.